City gets new trash contract



By Arthur McLeanEditor Thomasville got what it wanted Monday, a new garbage contract. During a special session, the city council approved Arrow as the city’s new waste disposal company. Arrow will begin delivering new trash cans and dumpsters soon and begin operations in Thomasville August 1. Allied Waste (formerly BFI) will continue picking up household garbage until that time after […]

Celebrating independence



Crowds gathered for the American Legion’s annual barbecue lunch Tuesday. Enterprising fundraisers Richard and Sarah Sims opened up a lemonade stand nearby on the golf course to raise money for the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo, still rebuilding from hurricane damage.

Recycling center back on its feet in new locale



By Arthur McLeanEditor The recycling center and Community rehabilitation center is back in action in a new location. When the new LifeTech center began taking over the former mental health and rehabilitation center, the recycling program needed to find a new home. After the first week of June, the recycling center found that new home in the former Hilton-Simplex building. […]

Hudson to get her mother’s kidney, urges organ donation



From Staff Reports Thirty-four years ago Charity Hudson’s mother lost her firstborn child in a tragic car accident. Ten months later in November of 1972, Hudson was born. “My mom has always told me I was her lifesaver; in just a few short weeks, she will become mine,” Hudson said. Charity Hudson was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erethyematosis (SLE) in […]

New physician comes to T’ville



By Arthur McLeanEditor Thomasville’s doctor population just increased again, with the introduction of Dr. Timothy Jetton from Florida. Jetton is a family physician currently sharing offices in the Physicians Care office. He moved to Thomasville two weeks ago from Elba. “I saw and ad for Southwest Alabama Medical Center and decided to come take a look,” Jetton said. What he […]

Fire destroys trailer



Firefighters work on a fire that destroyed an abandoned trailer in the Choctaw Corner area last week.

Drought disaster declared



Governor Bob Riley and Commissioner Ron Sparks of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries on Friday expressed their appreciation to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns for designating 48 Alabama counties as primary natural disaster areas due to the ongoing drought. Governor Riley and Commissioner Sparks traveled to Washington, DC last week and requested the disaster declaration. “High temperatures and […]

Bomb threat suspect at large



Although local lawmen quickly picked up a suspect in the courthouse bombing threat made last Wednesday, June 28, he was released when he provided a substantiated alibi of his whereabouts that day. A call was made from the pay phone at the Diamond convenience store in Grove Hill to the Clarke County Circuit Clerk’s office in the courthouse shortly after […]

Area Calendar



AL-ANON Meets AL-ANON meets every Thursday night at 6:30 at Pineview Baptist Church (enter door at Moore Street entrance behind church). For more information call 636-9985. Midway Baptist to hold VBS Midway Baptist Church in Dickinson will hold Vacation Bible School July 10 – 14 from 4 until 6 p.m. Preschoolers to adults are invited to take part. There will […]

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Be careful during this dry season

The summer drought has gotten so bad that emergency declarations have been made for many Alabama counties including Clarke. Brush fires present a real danger this summer as nearly everything is so dry it cracks. 2006 is turning out to be one of the worst fire years on record. Nearly 3,000 wildfires have burned more than 47,000 acres of land […]